Electron transfer and protein dynamics in the photosynthetic reaction center

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2567-2587

  McMahon, Benjamin H ^a   Müller, Joachim D ^a   Wraight, Colin A ^b   Nienhaus, G Ulrich ^a,b,c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ILLUMINATION; KINETICS; MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

ARRHENIUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0344193626     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77964-0     Document Type: Article

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